Threat ... A 14-year-old girl found there are some things you shouldn’t joke about when she was arrested for tweeting a threat to American Airlines. Pic: Karen Bleier Source: AFP

THE overnight arrest of a 14-year-old teenager for tweeting a bomb threat to an American airline has sparked a wave of teen copycats tweeting bomb threats to airlines.

Overnight Dutch police arrested a 14-year-old girl who tweeted a terrorist threat to American Airlines and then boasted of her social media stunt.

This morning another Twitter user, who also appears to be a teenager, sent a bomb threat to Southwest Airlines and also he went into meltdown when the airline announced it had reported the threat to authorities.

The 14-year-old Dutch Twitter user, @queendemetriax_, who yesterday thought it would be funny to send a terrorist threat to an American Airline, first tried apologising for the stunt and then started boasting of the thousands of social media followers she picked up following the threat.

The American Airlines response to yesterday’s Twitter threat.Source: Supplied

“Sarah’s” Twitter account has been suspended. This morning Dutch police took to Twitter to announce her arrest.

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